Miscellaneous

Citation

(2005), "Miscellaneous", Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. 14 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/dpm.2005.07314bac.006

Miscellaneous

11 June 2004Collapse of coal mine, Fangshan District, China

Rescue workers have found that all ten people trapped since Sunday (June 6) in a collapsed suburban Beijing mine have died, local media reported today. The workers in the Beijing Coal Corp Daan Shan Mine turned up dead yesterday night after some 100 hours of rescue work, according to the Beijing Times.

26 July 2004Collapse of hospital building, Kabul, Afghanistan

A wing of a four-storey hospital under construction in Kabul collapsed today, injuring several people and prompting a frantic rescue operation for others trapped in the rubble. Witnesses and police said a 40-yard section of the concrete structure, which had been stripped bare and enclosed with scaffolding crumpled without warning. There was no sign of any explosion. Police said it was unclear if anyone had died or how many were injured, but workers said several people were hurt. Khoda Bakhsh, a worker who escaped with cuts on his face, said he was in a yard behind the hospital when it collapsed. He said he had seen six injured people taken away. “There must be dead bodies too because 20 people were working in each floor,” he said. Earth-movers and cranes went to the scene to try to free survivors. The Jamhuriat Hospital, located in the centre of Kabul close to the Interior Ministry, was being refurbished by a Chinese-Afghan construction consortium.